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Reconnecting with the sitar
19 May 2025Indian-born classical musician Shalu Garg has gone to great lengths to re-learn the sitar. Read more Video, Audio
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Bringing Edinburgh to Auckland
16 May 2025Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo creative director Alan Lane talks about bringing the show to Aotearoa in February. Read more Audio
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Dunedin Concerto Competition 2025 finalists
RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump talks with the three finalists in this year's Dunedin Concerto Competition. Read more Audio
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Cellist Portia Bell
RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump talks with Portia Bell, one of the three finalists in this year's Dunedin Concerto Competition. Read more Audio
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Cultural life inside the Loop
15 May 2025Tongan Kiwi Jack Bourke trained as a tenor. These days, his work is focused on maximising the benefit Auckland's art scene gets from the city's underground rail link. Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of Calm: The Magic Bus Stop
14 May 2025If you take the No 25 bus to Highbury in Wellington and get your timing right, you might just hear a Kiwi or two when you step out the door. Read more Audio
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Pianist Ozan Biner-McGrath
RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump talks with Ozan Biner-McGrath, one of the three finalists in this year's Dunedin Concerto Competition. Read more Audio
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Levi Patel's Chinese love affair
14 May 2025Composer Levi Patel fell in love with a woman from Liuzhou. It didn't last, but his relationship with the Chinese city continues to blossom. Read more Video, Audio
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Pianist Roy Zhang
RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump talks with Roy Zhang, one of the three finalists in this year's Dunedin Concerto Competition. Read more Audio
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Getting the show on the screen
13 May 2025Composer Fergus Fry is also a natural-born producer. Read more Video, Audio
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From Bach to Beethoven with the NZSO
9 May 2025Japanese Maestro Masaaki Suzuki makes his New Zealand Symphony Orchestra debut. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: Tree in the traffic.
8 May 2025In this week's Sonic Moment of Calm a busker dressed as a tree cuts through Wellington's traffic noise with some smooth sax. Read more Audio
18 July 2025
with Bryan Crump
Glass, Philip: Concerto for Saxophone Quartet & Orchestra (4) - Raschèr Saxophone Quartet, ORF Vienna Radio SO/Dennis Russell Davies (Nonesuch 7559794962)
Dvořák, Antonín: Czech Suite Op 39 (3) - Malaysian Phil/Claus Peter Flor (BIS SACD 1856)
Chopin, Frédéric: Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor Op 58 (2) - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ UA35)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Mass in B minor, Sanctus - Amsterdam Baroque Choir & Orch/Ton Koopman (Challenge CC 72188)
Belli, Olivia: Grain Moon - Anna Lapwood (org), Olivia Belli (org) (Sony 19658831402)
German, Edward: Three Dances, from Henry VIII - Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 49933)
Lilburn, Douglas: Prelude (1951) - Margaret Nielsen (pno) (MANU CD MANU 1511)
Saint-Saëns, Camille: Suite for cello & orchestra Op 16 - Johannes Moser (cello), Stuttgart Radio SO/Fabrice Bollon (Hänssler CD 93.222)
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Puccini, Giacomo: O mio babbino caro, from Gianni Schicchi - Richard Stoltzman (cl), Slovak Phil (RCA 09026 68817)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Piano Concerto No 23 in A K488 (2) - Maria Joao Pires (pno), Salzburg Mozarteum Orch/Frans Brüggen (DG 477 6607)
Shore, Howard: Concertino from Eastern Promises (1) - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Greg Knowles (cimbalom), Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits (Decca 4783529)
Mendelssohn, Felix: String Quartet No 6 in F minor Op 80 (2) - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570001)
Rossini, Gioachino: Bassoon Concerto in Bb (3) - Jaakko Luoma (bassoon), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Janne Nisonen, concertmaster (Ondine ODE13242)
Debussy, Claude: Arabesques Nos 1 & 2 - Zoltán Kocsis (pno) (Philips 422 404)
Consuelo Velázquez: Bésame mucho - Juan Diego Flórez (tenor), Jonathan Bolívar (guitar) (SONY 19075822942)
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Couperin, François: Le Tic-Toc-Choc, ou Les Maillotins - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67440)
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel: Symphony in B minor Wq182/5 (1) - Arte dei Suonatori /Marcin Swiatkiewicz (BIS BIS2459)
Young, Kenneth: Three Sad Waltzes - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (RNZ UA10)
Delius, Frederick: North Country Sketches - 4. The March of Spring - Ulster Orchestra/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 8413)
Traditional: Polska efter Sven Donat - Emilia Amper (nyckelharpa) and band (BIS BIS2243)
Silvestrov, Valentin: Abendserenade - Anastasia Kobekina (cello) (Sony 19658828072)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Flute Concerto No 1 in G K313 (3) - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Ostrobothnian CO/Juha Kangas (BIS SACD 1539)
Williams, John Arr. Antoine Bareil: Suite Far and Away - Angèle Dubeau (violin), La Pietà (Analekta AN28733)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Piano Sonata No 12 in Ab Op 26 (1) - Jonathan Biss (pno) (ONYX 4082)
Debussy, Claude: Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder! - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 105)
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Brahms, Johannes orch Juon: Hungarian Dance No 4 in F# minor - London SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8885)
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk: Bassoon Concerto in F - Jaakko Luoma (bassoon), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Janne Nisonen (Ondine ODE13242)
Hume, Tobias: Musicke & Mirth - Marianne Muller (viola da gamba), Liam Fennelly (viola da gamba), Pau Marcos (viola da gamba) (ZIG ZAG ZZT 100 501)
Kats-Chernin, Elena: Green Leaf Prelude, from Piano Village - Tonya Lemoh (piano) (ABC Classics ABCL0082D)
Arni Björnsson: Romanza for violin & orchestra Op 6 - Sigrun Edvaldsdóttir (vln), Iceland SO/Petri Sakari (Chandos CHAN 9180)
Handel, George Frideric: I know that my Redeemer liveth, from Messiah - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Chicago SO/Georg Solti (Decca 425 848)
Debussy, Claude orch Ravel: Sarabande, from Pour le Piano - Quebec SO/Yoav Talmi (Atma SACD 2 2377)
Maxwell Davies, Peter arr Knigge: Farewell to Stromness - Lucie Horsch (recorder), LUDWIG Orch (Decca 4853192)
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